Only skills that employees need for success on the job and for advanced training are targeted.

Flexible schedules compliment work shifts to meet production demands.

Instruction and occupational skills training may include both in-person and virtual depending on need.

Nadia McNish

Nadia McNish arrived in the United States 20 years ago from Jamaica with a high school diploma that proved mostly worthless to American employers.

Following a string of challenges, including homelessness, McNish ultimately earned her high school equivalency (HSE) from the Broadview Learning Center in Bloomington, Indiana. The program is part of the DWD Adult Education network, where Hoosiers like McNish can earn their high school diploma or equivalency.

Receiving her HSE was just the push McNish needed to pursue a career. She is set to graduate in May with a Master of Social Work from the Indiana University School of Social Work in Bloomington, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2020. McNish also is a practicing intern at Bloomington Meadows Hospital as a clinical therapist.

Ramiza Rizvic

Ramiza Rizvic left war-torn Bosnia for the United States with her husband and two young daughters in 1999, unable to speak much English at all.

They settled in Fort Wayne, where her husband’s two brothers had come before them to escape the carnage. Rizvic landed a job at National Plastics Corp. in Fort Wayne and was there for seven years before being laid off in 2014.

For Rizvic, every year her English skills improved and, in 2016, she started High School Equivalency classes through DWD’s Adult Education program. Rizvic graduated in 2017 but continued her education beyond the HSE. She completed classes to become certified as a clinical medical assistant.